The Google search engine periodically uses an artistic interpretation of its logo, known as the Doodle, to honor famous people or commemorate holidays and events. The Tubman-inspired logo that appeared Saturday features a drawing of Tubman holding a lantern against a night sky, with the letters made to look like tree branches.

Tubman, born into slavery in Dorchester County around 1820, escaped bondage through a network known as the Underground Railroad and later made 19 missions back to the Eastern Shore, leading about 300 slaves to freedom. In the Civil War, Tubman worked for the Union Army and led the Combahee River Raid, which freed more than 700 slaves in South Carolina.

Doodles are the logo-incorporating works of art that Google regularly features on its homepage. They began in 1998 with a stick figure by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin -- to indicate they were attending the Burning Man festival. Since then the doodles have become works of art --...

Sen. Ben Cardin has emerged as a central figure in the debate over the pending nuclear deal with Iran, joining a small group of lawmakers who could decide the future of one of President Barack Obama's most significant foreign policies.

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